Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. 40th Ed.
“A thing of beauty... Tillmans’ work is storyless, evanescent, self-referential — in a word, art.”
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Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. 40th Ed.
Eyes of Our Time
Wolfgang Tillmans compiles 30 years of his work to draw a picture of where we are today
His first volume for TASCHEN (1995) shows the young generation of the 1990s, of which Tillmans himself was a member, in clubs, at Gay Pride, at fashion events, and in everyday life. His dense, realistic photographs conjure up tangible utopias of community and society and are important documents of their time as well. With the follow-up volume Burg (1998), Tillmans enriches his subject matter with another array of beautiful, now iconic photographs. In truth study center (2005), his images condense into even more subtle compositions and now stand alongside completely abstract works. Finally, Neue Welt (2012) documents Wolfgang Tillmans’ travels around the globe: from London to Tierra del Fuego, India, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Central Africa, we follow his ever-inquisitive eye for the realities of our planet, for social situations with people and markets, technology and architecture, and last but not least, nature and astronomy. For this volume, the artist for the first time made use of the new possibilities of digital photography. This enabled a density of information and incisiveness hardly seen in photographs until then.
This 40th-anniversary publication from TASCHEN combines the best of the four books in one volume. Wolfgang Tillmans himself has compiled this edition, partly redesigned it, added some recent works, and written a new foreword.
Paging through this collection of images, which spans three decades, there are countless moments to delight in, moments that are held not only in our collective memory but in our individual ones too.
The photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans is regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His diverse body of work–still lifes, portraits, abstract imagery–spans a range of subjects, namely political movements, photographic representation, and subcultures. Today, his work is shown in numerous international museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou and the Tate and has earned many awards, including the Turner Prize in 2000.
Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. 40th Ed.
Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.20 kg, 560 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-8253-7
Edition: English5